Posted by radhika.reddy@Vanderbilt.Edu on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 in Activities Everyone.

Location: Student Life Center Lower Level Meeting Rooms 1 & 2

Every day it is becoming more evident that the struggles for environmental justice and social justice overlap tremendously. As globalization leads to the degradation of delicate ecosystems, an unseen side-effect is the collapse of the often rural communities that depend on those ecosystems to thrive. In this presentation, Andrew Legan will talk about his Ingram summer project in Brazil. He worked with Wildlife Conservation Society in the Pantanal and Cerrado of Brazil. He willll discuss the shared goals of the environmental and social justice movements as well as their shared histories in Brazil. He will also try to describe where volunteers and research assistants (particularly undergraduates) fit into the big picture.